§ 79-19-53. Exemptions
Each association organized hereunder shall be exempt from the payment of ad valorem taxes on agricultural products and products of farm, grove or garden produced by its members within the State of Mississippi.
§ 79-19-55. Filing fees
For filing articles of association and amendments to the articles, an association organized under this chapter shall pay to the Secretary of State Fifty Dollars ($50.00).
§ 79-19-57. Cooperative marketing associations may maintain replevin
All cooperative marketing associations organized or doing business under the laws of the State of Mississippi may obtain the possession of personal property to the immediate possession of which they may be entitled, by the action of replevin, and the giving of this means of enforcement of rights shall not be in lieu, or in […]
§ 79-19-59. Liquidated damages may be recovered
If such cooperative marketing association recover judgment as plaintiff in replevin and the property sued for be agricultural products and the plaintiff’s right to the possession thereof as against the defendant be by virtue of a marketing agreement with a member of such association and the defendant has bonded the property within two (2) days […]
§ 79-19-61. Loan limited to 50 percent of capital and surplus
The total liability to any association organized or doing business under the terms of this chapter by a person, company, corporation, or firm for money loaned shall not exceed fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate paid in capital and surplus of said association. The discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith, against actual […]
§ 79-19-63. Stock in bank for cooperatives
All cooperative agricultural associations of any kind or character whatsoever, heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of the State of Mississippi, are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, or otherwise acquire, and to hold stock in the New Orleans Bank for Cooperatives and in the Central Bank for Cooperatives in accordance with the provisions […]
§ 79-19-65. Applicability of general nonprofit corporation laws to associations organized under this chapter
The general nonprofit corporation laws and all powers and rights under those laws apply to the associations organized under this chapter, except where such provisions are in conflict or inconsistent with the express provisions of this chapter.
§ 79-19-45. Association heretofore organized may adopt the provisions of this chapter
Any corporation or association organized under previously existing statutes, or any foreign corporation or association heretofore authorized by the laws of this state to do business in this state, or any foreign corporation or association organized under the laws of another state, may by a majority vote of its directors or members be brought under […]
§ 79-19-47. How associations organized in another state may carry on business in this state
Any cooperative marketing association, organized under appropriate laws of any other state for the purposes and with the restrictions and limitations substantially the same as those set forth herein, may operate and do business in this state with all the rights, powers, and privileges granted to any cooperative marketing association incorporated under this chapter, upon […]
§ 79-19-49. Misdemeanor; breach of marketing contract of cooperative association; spreading false reports about the finances or management thereof
Any person or persons or any corporation whose officers or employees knowingly induce or attempt to induce any member or stockholder of an association organized hereunder to breach his marketing contract with the association, or who knowingly spreads false reports about the finances or management thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to […]